It's Monday Jan 28th

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It's Monday - and that means a recap of the past week's reading! Big thanks, once again, to the Teach Mentor Texts crew (Jen and Kellee) for hosting this each week. Visit their site for more great reading recaps.

I know I often claim I'll keep it short, but today I really mean it. I ended up spending a big chunk of Sunday running to Ikea for furniture for my older son's new room. I also have reviews to finish and grading to do... you know how it goes, right? So I'm linking each category to that shelf at Goodreads. Check out my shelf for a bit more detail on each book.


Picture Book Joy:




Graphic Novel Fun: 

Science Fiction:
    The review for Fellowship for Alien Detection will be up this week for Sci Friday. I'm planning to write up Pearl Wars for next week.


This past week: 


The Batty About Books team picked up a new book, and a guest chatter this week! Check out our first post about Geeks, Girls, and Secret Identities...



And I did a Nonfiction review of a book that will quickly jump off your shelf if you have any kids into the weird and gross...

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